In a bout of spontaneous adventurism, at about noon today I decided to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival in the city. I believe the idea percolated into my mind at about the same time I looked out my window and saw the perfect clear sapphire blue of the sky. So I packed my backpack with a few essentials and set off to answer the sudden flush of wanderlust.
You don’t really notice the sheer number of flowering trees there are planted in DC until you come at this particular time of year. Whole forests of them cover random corners of the Mall and around the Tidal Basin in a billowing blanket of pink and white.
Forests of white
A yellow daffodil near the Tidal Basin
Playing with the focus
Jefferson Memorial wreathed in blossoms
Pretty and pink
These flowers are actually very tiny, about the size of my pinky fingernail
I am not sure why I like this photo so much (maybe it is the ducks), but it is one of my favorites
Crazy tree on the mall


Illuminated
Tower of light